I'm an outsider here but I think she's done what she can do so far ... short of filing a lawsuit which might be a long shot and counterproductive.
i think UConn is unique in that it has two basketball programs that get numbers as good or better than a majority of the other schools mens programs.
I completely understand how it works, which is why I understand why the Big East is in a position of weakness vis-a-vis the power conferences. People are placing blame erroneously. For those thinking Val is so incompetent, I'll quote the great Stephen Stills:
UConn gets $500,000 a year from CBS Sports. The big thing is that we got a football TV contract on linear TV.
I don't think she is great, like I don't think any of these people are great. Is Sankey great because he is selling Alabama and LSU and not Baylor and TCU? I don't think any school in the Big East would get more money in any other league besides UConn. I don't think there is anything else to judge her on. The presidents of Butler, DePaul, Seton Hall etc, must absolutely love her.
he did have schools use the AAC as a stepping stone to P4, so the AAC must have been doing something right.
I recently saw some click bait article ranking Athletic Directors. Of course all the Big 10 and SEC guys were there. David Benedict was not. I am sure our AD Benedict's job is significantly more difficult and that he is doing a much better job than any of those P AD's.
It’s not actually. It has 1 great team and a few good ones but also has a bunch of absolute dreck. Or did you not realize that Seton Hall Butler, Georgetown and DePaul are in the league.
Well, we are talking about basketball and the Big East so….
I wasn’t aware that I went to school in the Midwest. I guess we’ll have to return our 35 Lambert Trophies…
You know, I hear people refer to PSU as a northeastern University, but also Midwestern and Mid-Atlantic.
No one that went to Penn State considers it Midwest. That is why there was twenty plus years of discontent before other Eastern Schools started being added. In a perfect world Penn State would be in a real Big East Conference with other bell cows like Miami and ND who also might not “geographically” be NE but identify with it far more than they do the Midwest or Deep South.
The best thing about ignorant people is that they are always willing to identify themselves.
I grew up in PA (Lehigh Valley). I would definitely say eastern PA (Lehigh Valley and Philly area) are simultaneously northeast and mid-Atlantic. I wouldn’t call central and western PA the northeast. It’s technically not the Midwest, but culturally it fits in much more with the Midwest than the northeast.
Central PA may not feel like the Northeast, but that doesn't mean Penn State isn't a Northeast school. In my opinion, the number of students, alums and fans in eastern PA, NJ, NY and even CT, makes Penn State a Northeast school.
It wasn't a myth.
This would have, in all likelihood, stabilized the big east, but even beyond that, I think it had the potential to stabilize conference realignment in general. Penn State to the Big Ten was one of the early pebbles that started the conference realignment avalanche.
One part of this equation that escapes most is that even if PSU did get the vote (*), PSU still would have received an invitation from the B10 when they did and they would have accepted.
If they aren't part of the Northeast, they need to return 35 Lambert Trophies.
I don't know. PSU was low hanging fruit as an independent and the Big Ten wasn't as dominant as they are now. You may be right, but I'm not sure about it.
That is also the timeframe where Villanova discontinued their football program (before bringing it back in Division 1-AA)